Chatham Area Business and Arts Blog

September 9, 2022 | theBerkshireEdge

Here each member of the Mac-Haydn Theatre corps gets a perfect moment alone on stage to show what they can do, and how to stop the show cold.

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The Berkshire Edge | August 3, 2022

“The choreographic telling of dance, ecology, and art in “One. One & One” was breathtakingly beautiful and poignantly relevant.”

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The Berkshire Edge | July 8, 2022

“A great many talented people worked their butts off to put across one of the most intelligent and fanciful musicals in the canon at the Mac-Haydn Theatre in Chatham, New York. They worked much harder than they should have had to because they had an ill- prepared tech working the sound booth. He, or she, didn’t ride gain and never punched the voices so that spoken lines and often sung lines could not make it through the orchestration, even of underscore. This show is intelligent; it is unusual; it requires an audience to listen. That said, the under-attended opening night audience seemed to understand how good the work was by the company and they rightfully applauded them for their efforts. I hope that the rest of the run of this show will be better managed and that larger audiences will be able to appreciate the important message the show imparts to our much-tested time.”

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Join Chatham area farmers and makers for their weekly market. It’s all happening at the pavilion at Crellin Park, Fridays 4:30-7:00pm, through September 30. Nineteen vendors are scheduled to attend, as well as weekly entertainment.

For more information, visit our Farmer and Maker’s Market webpage, Instagram and Facebook pages.

March 16, 2022 | The Berkshire Edge

CHATHAM, N.Y. — PS21’s 2022 season will include expanded community programming for residents of Columbia County, U.S. company debuts, world and North American premieres, international artists, and performances of work developed in PS21’s growing artists’ residency program. The season features more than 50 events — in the theater, fields, and along the trails — by a constellation of celebrated and emerging dancers and choreographers, musicians and singers, actors, directors, and international street artist. The expanded PS21 Pathways program, at its largest and most ambitious, is still free of charge to the community. Tickets can be purchased here.

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March 15, 2022 | The Berkshire Edge

CHATHAM, N.Y. — Crandell Theatre will present the area premiere of GardenFit, a new 13-episode public television series highlighting different garden styles and techniques, while providing advice and solutions for gardeners’ aches and pains. Columbia County residents, creators, and co-hosts of GardenFit, Expert Gardener Madeline Hooper and Fitness Trainer Jeff Hughes will introduce two 30-minutes episodes and conduct a Q&A on Sunday, March 27 from 1­–3:30 p.m.

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March 10, 2022 | The Berkshire Eagle

CHATHAM, N.Y. —The lights are back on at Blue Plate restaurant. After closing for all of 2021, the popular establishment is back in business.

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